US4486022A
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Sports board games
Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1983-02-18
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Granted: 1984-12-04
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Expires: 2003-02-18
Abstract
Abstract A series of board games wherein players attempt to maximize their financial worth by buying, selling and trading performers, each including a game board representing a specific sport and having a plurality of spaces located about the board forming a path for movement of game pieces. Designated spaces on each board represent professional athletes or performers of the respective sport and activities relating to that sport. Each player is provided with a token which the player moves around the board as directed by chance means such as dice. Each performer space represents a specific performer and has two designated values marked thereon, an acquisition value and an income value. Other spaces direct players to take actions, relevant to the sport which will retard, promote or in some instances not affect the players' chances of winning the game. Sets of cards corresponding to the performers, teams, stadiums and game related actions are provided. The team cards have a number of performers on them and the stadium cards contain a second income value for corresponding performer income spaces.
Inventors
- 👤 Arthur R. Dixon
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-05 15:27
CPC Classifications
A; A63; A63F; A63F3/00; A63F3/00003; A63F3/00028; A63F3/00063; A63F3/00072; A63F3/00006
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
195 words
A sports board game wherein players attempt to maximize their financial worth comprising in combination, (a) a game board having a plurality of contiguous spaces forming a path consisting of, performer spaces having designated thereon the name of a performer and monetary values non-specific action spaces specific action spaces (b) a plurality of performer cards, each card corresponding to a performer space on said game board, (c) a plurality of action cards directing actions related to the game, (d) a plurality of team cards representing a designated group of performers and having thereon names of performers designated on said performer spaces, (e) a plurality of stadium replicas, (f) a plurality of stadium cards having data thereon indicating monetary values for performers higher than the monetary values marked on said performer spaces whereby a player who acquires a group of the performers listed on said team cards may place said stadium replicas on performer spaces and be entitled to increased income from opponents, (g) a player token for each player to designate movement along the path of the board, (h) chance means for determining the movement of the player tokens along the path of the board.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
195 words
A sports board game wherein players attempt to maximize their financial worth comprising in combination, (a) a game board having a plurality of contiguous spaces forming a path consisting of, performer spaces having designated thereon the name of a performer and monetary values non-specific action spaces specific action spaces (b) a plurality of performer cards, each card corresponding to a performer space on said game board, (c) a plurality of action cards directing actions related to the game, (d) a plurality of team cards representing a designated group of performers and having thereon names of performers designated on said performer spaces, (e) a plurality of stadium replicas, (f) a plurality of stadium cards having data thereon indicating monetary values for performers higher than the monetary values marked on said performer spaces whereby a player who acquires a group of the performers listed on said team cards may place said stadium replicas on performer spaces and be entitled to increased income from opponents, (g) a player token for each player to designate movement along the path of the board, (h) chance means for determining the movement of the player tokens along the path of the board.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
18 words
A sports board game as defined in claim 1 wherein said plurality of spaces form a continuous path.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
21 words
A sports board game as defined in claim 1 wherein said plurality of spaces are contiguous and form a continuous path.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
35 words
A sports board game as defined in claim 1 wherein said performance spaces have a first value representing an acquisition value for that performer and a second value representing an income value for that performer.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
28 words
A sports board game as defined in claim 4 wherein said performer cards have monetary values marked thereon corresponding to the monetary values marked on said performer spaces.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
31 words
A sports board game as defined in claim 4 wherein said stadium cards have data thereon indicating income values for performers higher than the income values marked on said performer spaces.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
28 words
A sports board game as defined in claim 1 wherein said performer cards have monetary values marked thereon corresponding to the monetary values marked on said performer spaces.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
17 words
A sports board game as defined in claim 1 wherein a plurality of penalty markers are provided.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
17 words
A sports board game as defined in claim 1 wherein a quantity of play money is provided.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
53 words
A sports game board as defined in claim 1 wherein some of said action cards direct actions which are advantageous to players and others of said action cards direct actions which are disadvantageous to players, said cards to be drawn by players each time their player token rests upon said non-specific action space.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
27 words
A sports game board as defined in claim 1 wherein game board has a designated area for stock-piling said action cards until they are drawn by players.
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